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Top 89 Giving Up Quotes in 2020

By: Quotes Guru | Last Updated: June 20, 2020

“Certainly, my many years working in the comics industry, creating products that I do not own, has made me rather fierce on the subject of giving up rights.”

― Alan Moore

“As a writer, you can’t allow yourself the luxury of being discouraged and giving up when you are rejected, either by agents or publishers. You absolutely must plow forward.”

― Augusten Burroughs

“That the object of the Brahmins in giving up beef-eating was to snatch away from the Buddhist Bhikshus the supremacy they had acquired is evidenced by the adoption of vegetarianism by Brahmins.”

― B. R. Ambedkar

“I would say that I’ve been lucky. Being blessed and not really ever giving up.”

― Babyface

“I kept giving up runs. It was, for sure, a rough road and a very rocky one. I enjoyed my time there, but not as much as I could have if I would have pitched well.”

― Billy Koch

“The broad consensus is that our system should be better structured to deter crimes without giving up on everyone who commits them, and should better balance resources to hold violent criminals fully accountable without imposing unnecessarily harsh sentences on nonviolent offenders.”

― Bob Casey, Jr.

“I just find it absolutely bizarre that we are being lectured by the Americans about giving up our sovereignty and giving up control when the Americans won’t even sign up to the international convention on the law of the seas, let alone the International Criminal Court.”

― Boris Johnson

“If there’s no point, then there’s no point giving up.”

― Charlie Brooker

“By the late ’80s, I was already giving up on rap music.”

― Chuck Eddy

“Giving up even an ounce of precious freedom is a very serious thing to do.”

― Chuck Schumer

“There are things I’d wish weren’t part of ageing. But what you gain is much more than you’re giving up. I don’t think you come into your own until you’re 35 or so.”

― Cindy Crawford

“Forgive: Make a conscious decision to cease to harbor resentment, which includes forgiving a debt and giving up one’s resolve to retaliate.”

― Clarissa Pinkola Estes

“Giving back involves a certain amount of giving up.”

― Colin Powell

“I believe 99% of success is never giving up.”

― Coy Bowles

“Diplomacy in general does not resolve conflicts. Wars end not due to peace processes, but due to one side giving up.”

― Daniel Pipes

“I was trying to find out what it was that everybody else understood without giving up my stubborn and hard-won lack of understanding.”

― David Antin

“Do I believe in giving up? No, I don’t.”

― David Boreanaz

“I was 25 when I’d told my parents that I was giving up steady work as an electrician to become an actor. They couldn’t have been less enthusiastic if I’d proposed starting a commercial newt-breeding operation in the bathroom.”

― David Jason

“I could not identify with harming my child or giving up my child. But I could identify with giving up my child if it were going to be ultimately in his best interest.”

― Drea De Matteo

“I’m the kind of guy that once I decide I’m going to do something I have a hard time just giving up on it without giving it a fair shot.”

― Drew Roy

“For him to have understood me would have meant reorganizing his thinking… giving up his intellectual ballast, and few people are willing to risk such a radical move.”

― Edward T. Hall

“After giving up softball, I didn’t know what I was going to do. I thought I would try bobsled, but I wasn’t really sure what would happen. I thought my athletic career was over.”

― Elana Meyers

“I hate the Communists and have for many years and don’t feel right about giving up my career to defend them. I will give up my film career if it is in the interests of defending something I believe in, but not this.”

― Elia Kazan

“I eat healthily and exercise, and I’m not giving up and saying I’m too old – I’m just determined to keep on marching with enthusiasm and interest and curiosity.”

― Ellen Burstyn

“With every advance, you have to look over your shoulder and know what you’re giving up – look over your shoulder and look at what falls away.”

― Ellen Ullman

“A fascinating reaction of the human brain when we fail to meet a goal is that it tells us to throw caution to the wind and make things even worse, which ultimately leads to us giving up.”

― Fabrizio Moreira

“The State acquires power… and because of its insatiable lust for power it is incapable of giving up any of it. The State never abdicates.”

― Frank Chodorov

“Giving up something personal to the public, you are surrendering something.”

― Holly Hunter

“I don’t like giving up hits and stuff, but I try not to show it. I don’t want the hitter to see that something bothers me.”

― Jacob deGrom

“Many think that the price of discipleship is too costly and too burdensome. For some, it involves giving up too much. But the cross is not as heavy as it appears to be. Through obedience, we acquire much greater strength to carry it.”

― James E. Faust

“I’ve got my hardcore fans, and I thank them so much for being there for me and not giving up on me.”

― Jeff Hardy

“There were some situations where I was giving up everything I had for the band and I just expected everybody else to feel the same way. I realized I was just kidding myself.”

― Jerry Only

“I could be, you know, the person that shows little kids that giving up isn’t something that you should do.”

― Jessica Lynch

“Failure at some point in your life is inevitable, but giving up is unforgivable.”

― Joe Biden

“The best thing is to go public only when you’re absolutely sure that’s the right move for the company. And in order to make sure that is the case, you need to have as much control over the company as possible, which means not giving up control early on.”

― Jon Oringer

“I actually have this fantasy of giving up my cell phone.”

― Julia Stiles

“I see many youngsters giving up their IT jobs and going to farming or taking up organic farming so that kids in future will stay a bit more healthier. That’s one cause I really want to take up.”

― Karthi

“The second is the structure and source of cults. They have always haunted me, and I wanted to explore the fundamental notion of giving up responsibility to an outside power.”

― Katherine Dunn

“I regret not taking my 83-year-old mother to the Oscars the year I won. She deserved the Oscar for giving up so much for me.”

― Kathy Bates

“The reason I can play loads of instruments is because I kept giving up and trying another one.”

― Lapsley

“I feel I could be a role model to other Hispanic gymnasts interested in the sport, but I also want them to understand the importance of being focused, determined, and not giving up, despite all the struggles.”

― Laurie Hernandez

“I have been accused of allegedly giving up my free-market principles in supporting some of Donald Trump’s proposed policies.”

― Lawrence Kudlow

“Now I’m giving up a little in the week-to-week tournaments but reaping the benefits in the majors.”

― Lee Westwood

“I’m happy ’bout life. Still trying. I ain’t giving up on life.”

― Leon Spinks

“Always be kind, especially in times when it seems like everyone is giving up on each other. Love harder.”

― Madeline Brewer

“I love the idea of giving up the vengeful nature that so many of us have.”

― Mandy Patinkin

“Going over to L.A., L.A. giving up a lot of prospects for me, that kind of shows you what I meant to them, which is amazing.”

― Manny Machado

“What’s worked for me is not quitting and being passionate about what I do and not giving up – and when I don’t believe in myself, turning to others who believe in me.”

― Marc Jacobs

“Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent.”

― Marilyn vos Savant

“I have a theory that burnout is about resentment. And you beat it by knowing what it is you’re giving up that makes you resentful.”

― Marissa Mayer

“Giving up smoking is the easiest thing in the world. I know because I’ve done it thousands of times.”

― Mark Twain

“Taxpayers should not be coerced into giving up their privacy rights just to file their taxes.”

― Melissa Bean

“To sit back and say, ‘Oh, we’re going to let the government do whatever they want, right or wrong,’ is giving up.”

― Michael Franti

“I knocked a lot of guys out from the seventh round on – so if I gave up, I would never have achieved what I did. There was no giving up. It’s weak to give up. The easiest thing in the world is to quit.”

― Micky Ward

“Giving up is something a Lauda doesn’t do.”

― Niki Lauda

“Giving up is the first way to fail. It does not exist for me.”

― Niko Kovac

“I’m not going to put my music up on some little corner of the Internet or give it away for free. What does that do? That’s just giving up. I’m not giving up, ever.”

― No I.D.

“We must face up to a difficult paradox: The U.S. can maintain a leading position in science only by giving up its desire to be number one.”

― Priyamvada Natarajan

“There has to be so many other ways of approaching airline security than demeaning ourselves by giving up a lot of our dignities and our liberty to do this.”

― Quico Canseco

“Those who are not giving up their nefarious activities even in the holy month of Ramzan, should their activities not be called unholy?”

― Rajnath Singh

“I could have gone professional, but I’m not giving up on my dream.”

― Rau’Shee Warren

“Google attempted to run a search engine in China, and they ended up giving up.”

― Rebecca MacKinnon

“Giving up your core business in search of a phantom audience is not wise.”

― Roger Ailes

“It is everyone’s prerogative to retire. But it’s like giving up on life as far as I’m concerned.”

― Roger Taylor

“The battle for freedom and liberty really never is over, and there are really low points in it, but I’m not giving up, and I’m not gonna engage in phony pep talks, either.”

― Rush Limbaugh

“It was a phenomenon I noticed many years ago. Young people were just giving up every bit of information about themselves they could.”

― Rush Limbaugh

“I gave up coffee. It’s almost worse than giving up a lover.”

― Sandra Bullock

“The only real failure is giving up.”

― Scooter Braun

“I’m not giving up acting, I’m definitely not going to stop.”

― Shane West

“Doing the eco-accessory thing doesn’t have to mean giving up designer labels. In fact, quite the opposite.”

― Sheherazade Goldsmith

“The English expression ‘to fall asleep’ is apt because the transition between waking and sleeping is a gradual drop from one state of being into another: a giving up of full self-consciousness for unconsciousness or for the altered consciousness of dreams.”

― Siri Hustvedt

“I think giving up people is a difficult thing.”

― Sissy Spacek

“There was no giving up. Trying and trying. That’s what I’m all about.”

― Sonita Alizadeh

“I have to say I regretted giving up animated movies.”

― Stanislav Grof

“I’ve twice been on the point of giving up my performing career to train for the priesthood.”

― Stephen Hough

“An artist cannot be responsible for what people make of their art. An audience loathe giving up preconceived images of an artist.”

― Stephen Stills

“We are not giving up on repealing and replacing Obamacare.”

― Steve Scalise

“I never got to the point of needing drugs or thinking about giving up myself.”

― Stuart Appleby

“What happens to each of my female heroes, certainly, is they find something bigger than themselves that they are honored to serve. It’s not giving up your family.”

― Tamora Pierce

“A huge problem we face when we’re in need is giving up our intuition and blindly following instruction. Letting go works when we are following our hearts, but not so well when we are following a leader.”

― Tara Stiles

“I remember some stories had a very big impact on me, like ‘The Little Train That Could,’ which is about the importance of not giving up, and ‘Little Toot,’ about a playful tugboat in the New York harbor.”

― Teri Garr

“A ‘social media fast’ is a fast, I suppose like any other. In this case, you’re simply giving up whether it be a device or a particular type of social media site. And I do this at least once weekly.”

― Tim Ferriss

“To cut the federal budget without cutting entitlements is like giving up chocolate-chip cookies and then deciding it’s OK to eat the ones that don’t have any nuts.”

― Timothy Noah

“Sometimes, giving up your privacy is a little like going to the dentist and we have let him have access that no one’s ever had.”

― Tom Petty

“Playing a rookie at quarterback tells the other players that you’re giving up the season.”

― Troy Aikman

“Ageing doesn’t mean giving up on style and individuality; it doesn’t mean abandoning fashion and living in comfy slippers and flannel knickers.”

― Twiggy

“Forgiving is giving up the wish that things could have been different. They weren’t. That’s the past. Let it go.”

― Valerie Harper

“The moment when you feel like giving up is right before your breakthrough.”

― Victoria Arlen

“I’m like, over love. Crush, smush. I can’t. I’m giving up on love at this point. I’m hoping for a crush. Actually, no. I don’t want a crush. I want someone to crush on me.”

― Xosha Roquemore

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